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Tag: coincidences

  • Image representing post: Note #16856

    1. @indiewebcamp London - which I'd planned to attend - is cancelled for #COVID19 ๐Ÿ˜ข
    2. I'm left with a hotel room I can't cancel ๐Ÿ˜ 
    3. Overhear my brother-in-law planning to book a hotel in London ๐Ÿค”
    4. EverythingWentBetterThanExpected.jpg ๐Ÿคœ๐Ÿค›

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 13 March, 2020
  • [Gifted] Sometimes the Universe just wants you to do something.




    tl;dr: First time here, clicked Wishlist Search, and it suggested the person whose song I was listening to at the time. Spooky as hell.

    So here's what happened to me today. Feeling unwell - bit of a cold and grumpy about it - and sipping a Lemsip to try to stave off the worst of โ€ฆ

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    • Repost
    • posted 11 February, 2015
  • CAPTCHA labelled "Enter the words you see" and the word is "wooords"

    Enter the "wooords" you see...

    AltCAPTCHA labelled "Enter the words you see" and the word is "wooords"

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    • Repost
    • posted 13 September, 2014
  • CAPTCHA labelled "Enter the words you see" and the word is "wooords"

    Enter the wooords you see

    AltCAPTCHA labelled "Enter the words you see" and the word is "wooords"

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    • posted 13 September, 2014
  • Ice and Lemon, by Pete Hartley

    Ice and Lemon

    Recently, Dan read a book about an alternate-universe version of himself, authored by somebody who very-nearly shares his father's name. Once he's done being creeped out by the coincidences in it, he recommends it to you, too.

    Read more - about 4 minutes (878 words)

    • Article
    • 4 comments
    • posted 22 April, 2014
  • Image representing post: Another Crazy Connection

    Another Crazy Connection

    Dan has a second blast-from-the-past moment as a second Oxfordite recognises him and sends him an email, just minutes after he was done getting back from the meeting that was the result of the last such coincidence.

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 12 May, 2011
  • A Small World Conspiracy

    Dan is contacted by somebody he met many years ago in a chance meeting, which quickly goes on to lead to an even more bizarre coincidence...

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    • 2 comments
    • posted 19 April, 2011
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #48:

    Discover, by sheer coincidence, that one of your more recent aquaintances down here (Claire) went to the same high school as one of your longer-running friends up North (Faye), and that they know one another! Freaky but completely true: the โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 14 November, 1999
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #8:

    Lose a pair of shoes by leaving them outside your door and finding them missing the following morning. Then find another pair you've never seen before underneath your bed.

    The 'cool and interesting things' were originally published to a location at โ€ฆ

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    • Article
    • posted 4 October, 1999

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